Collaborators Collaborating: Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations

Published by Berghahn Books 2012

Collaborators Collaborating

Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations

Edited by: Monica Konrad

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857454812

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As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science bases of their own. The case studies here, from the UK, West Africa, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Latin America and elsewhere, explore the forms of collaborative knowledge relations in play and the effects of ethics review and legal systems on local communities, and also demonstrate how anthropologically-informed insights may hope to influence key policy debates. Questions of governance in science and technology, as well as ethical issues related to bio-innovation, are increasingly being featured as topics of complex resourcing and international debate, and this volume is a much-needed resource for interdisciplinary practitioners and specialists in medical anthropology, social theory, corporate ethics, science and technology studies.

Author / Editor information

Monica Konrad is a medical anthropologist and former Bye-Fellow / Senior Research Associate of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests in contemporary ethical and organizational forms range across the arts, architecture and life sciences. She has conducted fieldwork amongst various therapeutic and research communities in relation to personalized healthcare and procreative practices (UK) and essential medicines and global health (Cambodia, Thailand, Europe). Her publications include Nameless Relations (2005) and Narrating the New Predictive Genetics (2005).

Reviews

“…succeeds in catalyzing what is undoubtedly one of the most salient debates within 21st-century anthropology. The rich ethnographic chapters provide readers with food for thinking through the changes – from participation to collaboration, from informants to interlocutors – that are both the object of study for contributors and the imperatives that they are confronted with.” · Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

“The volume points to valid and overlooked claims about the often- assumed benefi ts of collaboration and notes that in some settings, collaboration itself is touted as an axiomatically better way of conducting research and can yield better results than noncollaborative work. Assumptions about collaboration merit critique, and the contributors to this volume help reveal challenges in collaborative research processes.” · Collaborative Anthropologies

“Theoretically ambitious and ethnographically rich, this volume takes a timely and critical look at inter-, trans-, even post-disciplinarity, emphasizing the central importance of exploring actual experiences and cultural contexts for the purpose of addressing the limits and potential of border-crossing and broad collaboration. This is multi-sited scholarship in an extended sense, in terms of disciplinary focus as well as empirical domain, with reasonable respect for the experimental and the playful.” · Gísli Pálsson, University of Iceland

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
I Intersections and Alignments
Chapter 1 A Feel for Detail: New Directions in Collaborative Anthropology Monica Konrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2 An Amazon Plant in Clinical Trial: Intersections of Knowledge and Practice Françoise Barbira-Freedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
II Transactions and Benefits
Chapter 3 Substantial Transactions and an Ethics of Kinship in Recent Collaborative Malaria Vaccine Trials in The Gambia Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelly, Babatunde Imoukhuede and Robert Pool Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Chapter 4 Transacting Knowledge, Transplanting Organs: Collaborative Scientific Partnerships in Mongolia Rebecca Empson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
III Currencies and Imperatives
Chapter 5 Currencies of Collaboration Marilyn Strathern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 6 Collaborative Imperatives: A Manifesto, of Sorts, for the Reimagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter Douglas Holmes and George E. Marcus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
IV Research and Ethics
Chapter 7 Building Capacity: A Sri Lankan Perspective on Research, Ethics and Accountability Robert Simpson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 8 Global Clinical Trials and the Contextualization of Research Ann Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
V Alliances and Diversity
Chapter 9 The Performance of Global Health R&D Alliances and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches Sonja Marjanovic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter 10 Partial Lineages in Diversity Research Amade M’charek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
VI Expertises and Attributions
Chapter 11 Meeting Minds; Encountering Worlds: Sciences and Other Expertises on the North Slope of Alaska Barbara Bodenhorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Chapter 12 Recognizing Scholarly Subjects in the Politics of Nature: Problematizing Collaboration in Southeast Asian Area Studies Celia Lowe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Afterword: Enabling Environments? Polyphony in 53 Monica Konrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 326
Keywords: Medical Anthropology; Applied Anthropology

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Published: May 1, 2012
ISBN: 9780857454812